Google + Portland charter school = <3

The Baxter Academy for Technology and Science, a not-yet-extant charter high school that hopes to be located in the old Media Power building across from Portland Pie on York Street, announced a huge deal this week with Google to provide Chromebook laptops for each incoming freshman and sophomore during its 2012-13 (proposed) inaugural year. The partnership would make Baxter, which will have a curriculum focused on science, tecnology, math, and engineering, "the largest deployer of Chromebooks in all of New England," according to a press release.

"The game-changing
advantage Chromebooks represent to educational institutions is making the
hardware transparent to the administrator," said Google engineer Blasie Pabon in the same release. "There is no need to tie a machine to
a particular user, no need to reimage the machine when it fails, no need to
migrate data from one machine to another. The machine becomes as generic as a
stapler, copier or white board."